Wht's your favourite solitaire card game? I'm a beleagured castle kind of person, though demon (the equally unwinnable game also known as canfield) is high on my list as well.

I dunno. I'm a sucker for games with strict rules, almost no chance of winning, and where the no-cheating code makes it an honourable but almost certain defeat. What can i say? I play like a paladin. What do your card games say about you?

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i was sure i'd be able to miss catching it, when blinder wasn't feeling well the other day.

Nope. I'm on the end of the stomach flu, but i'm exhausted and i'll be staying home from work tomorrow i think.

Blinder remembered about ginger ale and so i have some ginger ale and some rice cakes

oh, and the MST3K, because there's no sense being sick without some good old Mystery Science Theater.

That's it. Write a 25 word story.

EXACTLY 25, no more or less.

Harold thought it was Darla's own fault. If she hadn't left the hurricane machine on, he'd have used the farm instead of her life insurance.

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for an added bonus, the current trendy exercise is SIX word stories, from the articles cropping up lately. I think Wired has one.

Write one of those for extra credit.

Went to the Rheumatologist last night, with the trusty Blinder by my side. He's good ammunition in a doctor's office; the doc was visibly perplexed by his 'sky flying bye' tshirt, and that really breaks the ice. Plus, i think my doctors like him, he asks questions and helps me remember stuff. The nurses have caught us playing with the blood pressure cuff and xray light and things, though, so they may not have such a sterling impression of us.

I've had it with bickering over politics, and if you're gonna make soup-line comments, let's bicker over something more mundane: What's your favourite winter soup recipe? (please include recipes, and desist from any political statements not in favour of the ethelred-dragon '08 ticket.)

It's your fate in '08!!!

putting the burn back in the burnin-nation!

Forget what they tell you. They weren't called "Journey cakes." For one thing, they are the worst thing to carry on a journey, being hard to carry or eat when cold (and icky, i'd imagine), and hard to cook when mixed on the spot unless you're also carrying a pan and oil/fat to fry them in.

'Jonikin' or 'joneken' meant 'corn' in several native tribes around Rhode Island.

Hence, Johnny Cakes.

I'm learning to drive a standard shift automobile again.

How well? You'll have to ask blinder. I was focusing on driving. But i haven't lost it completely.

I love the car. I really do. I love the way it moves and the way it steers and the way she bitches to get out of first gear ALREADY THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

She's a lovely car.

Dinner happened last night, with only minor casualties.

What people don't realise is that there are ten fewer boxes in our apartment as of this week.

And also that there are only perhaps nine left. I need a filing cabinet to sort papers into and the last of the boxes will be gone.